Bob Leonard did not have a booby trap for him, but he did have some angry words.
The robots sent video back to the troops, sparing them the risk of being dispatched by booby trap or enemy combatant.
They have also been linked to a booby trap bomb which exploded under a police officer's car in Spamount, County Tyrone in May 2008.
Cpl Tom Neathway, based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in a civilian role, was injured when a booby trap bomb detonated in 2008.
They encountered what commanders believe may have been a booby trap a box discovered while the three were collecting firewood at Kandahar International Airport.
When the two were found dead Homer apparently of starvation, Langley from a booby trap meant to snare intruders the house contained, among many, many other things, 15, 000 medical books, 10 grand pianos and that chassis from a Model T Ford.
Over the past ten months, and in accelerating numbers in the past few days, over 40 Palestinians have been the victims of Israel's policy of picking off by missile attack, sniper-fire or booby trap people it says orchestrate terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.
The chicken-hawks that populate the Congress clearly prefer to force private businessmen to booby trap their own hiring process, harming a lot of innocents in the process, while cowardly lawmakers remain safely in the rear with a gun at the backs of the private firms they commandeer to use as cannon fodder on the front lines of their mismanaged war on illegals.
McAfee warned that attackers could booby-trap websites with the exploit code and "silently" compromise vulnerable PCs.
Less than two weeks later, an undercar booby-trap bomb was found lying on a road in west Belfast.
Police would cut off the body armor he wore and learn from him about the explosive booby-trap at his home.
In 1991 Douglas Carrothers an RUC reservist was killed when the IRA booby-trap bomb exploded under his car in County Fermanagh.
In April 2011, Constable Ronan Kerr was killed when a booby-trap car bomb exploded under his car in Omagh, County Tyrone.
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Eighteen British soldiers were killed later that day when two booby-trap bombs exploded beside Narrow Water Castle near Warrenpoint in County Down.
Rosemary Nelson, a mother of three, died in a booby-trap car bomb attack at her home in Lurgan, County Armagh in 1999.
The recent booby-trap bomb attack on a Catholic police officer, which left him critically injured, was a reminder of the continuing menace of dissident republican groups.
Urban combat is the deadliest form of warfare, not least because the Taliban or Iraqi insurgents love to fortify buildings and booby-trap doorways and windows, as in the Battle of Fallujah.
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